Genetics Quote by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community…

— Frank Smith

“Languages have complicated family trees, you know—mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest.”

— Lauren Kate

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

Every language has influences and is an influence.

— Amos Oz

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

— Lewis Thomas

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian…

— Amos Oz

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

— Samuel Johnson

“Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people…

— Suzy Kassem

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each…

— Terence McKenna

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities -…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o